somehow

[suhm-hou]

adverb

1. in some way not specified, apparent, or known.

somehow

/ ˈsʌmˌhaʊ /

adverb

1. in some unspecified way

2. Also: somehow or other. by any means that are necessary

Word History and Origins

Origin of somehow¹

First recorded in 1655–65; some + how ¹

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. somehow or other, in an undetermined way; by any means possible.

   She was determined to finish college somehow or other.

see under or other.

Example Sentences

The American right has to shed its Jew-haters somehow, just as it had to loose itself from segregationism and assorted paranoias in the 1960s.

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Beyond death, there is so much suffering and evil that is even more indescribable, somehow less cut-and-dry than the simple act of dying.

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Even if you were somehow to control every aspect of fentanyl production, that doesn’t really reflect what the current drug market in the U.S. looks like.

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Further biological testing revealed that the transplanted cells had somehow replicated throughout the man’s body.

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It is absurd to imply, as Mr. Adler does, that litigation designed to impose a de facto carbon tax—one that would bankrupt the U.S. energy sector—is somehow “compatible” with federal law.

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